ALGONQUIAN LANGUAGES, 



485 



Thavenet ( ) — Continued. 



Title verso blank 1 1. text 5 11. with the heading 

 Ekko qi mijakuijeg. 



Obeir au pretre, comme pere. N" 3. | 23 aout, 

 1807. 



Title verso blank 1 1. text headed Obediemua 

 tibi I jasue l^"" 17, 6 11. followed by one blank 1. 



Sur la passion. 



No title-page : text headed as above 3 11. 1 

 blank 1. 



Divorce N" 5. | 1807, 12jeuillet. 



Title verso blank 1 1. text without heading 

 311. 



1807, 14 juin!N"6 | Punition d'un grand scan- 

 dale. 



No title, text headed as above 3 11. the first of 

 which is in French, the others in Nipissing. 



1807, 19 jeuill. N" 7 | impuret6 punie. 



Title verso blank 1 1. test without heading 3 11. 



"Renvoyer a son mari une | ferame qui I'a 

 . quite, j 1807. | 4 aout. 



Title verso blank 1 1. text 4 11. 1 blank 1. 



Point de procession del'assomption. | 9 aout, 

 1807. 



No title, text with above heading 1 1. 



Procession. | 16 aout. 1807 



No title, text with the above heading 7 11. 

 verso of 11. 2 and 7 blank. 



Peccastis peccatum ma- | ximum. Exode 32. 

 30. 



No title, text headed as above 4 11. 



The sermons in' the second volume, which is 

 entitled "II. Exhortations" and consists of 31 

 11. are as follows: 



Confirmation. N" 1 | 26 juin 1808. 



Title verso blank 1 1. text 4 11. 



Entr6e de Mgr. No. 2 | prem. communion. 



Title verso blank 1 1. text, including prayers, 

 4 11. 1 blank 1. 



Ouverture de la mission N" 3 | 1808 | 26 Mai. 



Title verso blank 1 1. text 3 11. 2 blank 11. 



1807, 31 Mai. N" 4 | [Seven lines in French.] 



Title verso blank 1 1. text 5 11. 



Ouverture de la mission. | 1807. | 24 Mai. 



Title verso blank 1 1. text 4 11. 1 blank 1. 



El rangers pt de scandale. 7 aout 1808. 



No title, text headed as above 2 11. 



The titles to the sermons in the third volume, 

 which is entitled "III. Fetes" and consists of 

 54 11. of text and some blank leaves, are : 

 Ascension. Fete Dieu. 



Pentecote. Dedicace. 



Trinity. Assomption, 



The fourth volume is entitled "IV. Pane- 

 geriques" and consists of 20 11. of text and sev- 

 eral blank leaves. The addresses are titled as j 

 follows : 



St Jean B'* S Pierre et S* Paul 



St Pierre S'« Anne 



The fifth volume is entitled " lY [sic for V]. 

 Sermons ' and consists of 2411. of text with some 

 blank leaves. The sermons are headed : 



Relig de St Jean nep 



Aux Vieillards en conseil 



Danse nocturne 



Apres une debauche g6n6rale 



Veiller et prier 



Thavenet ( ) — Continued. 



[Sermons, prayers, etc. in the Algon- 

 quin language.] (*) 



Manuscripts; preserved in the Biblioteca 

 Yittorio Emmanuele at Kome. They are de- 

 scribed in Teza (E.), Intorno agli studi del 

 TAavcneit, p. 21, as follows : 



"Sinot6 gia che in questa raccolta, oltre al 

 lessico e alia grammatica, abbiamoalcuni testi: 

 e perch6 questo magro indice sia meno incom- 

 piuto aggiunger6 che in lingua algonchina ci 

 sono ancora prediche (xxiii, J), preghiere 

 (xxiii, I e xxni, C), 11 rituale per il battesimoe 

 per la confessione tradotto alia lettera in latino 

 (XXIII, r. Q) un motet pour l assomption, et un 

 duo pour la fete-Dieu con le parole e le note 

 (XXIII, H), e in fine un cantico irochese con la 

 versione francese (xxiii, M)." 



The abbe Thavenet was a French Sulpitian 

 who passed many years of his life in preaching 

 the Catholic faith to the Indians of the Lac des 

 Deux Montagues, of Temiscaming, and of Way- 

 montaching, in Canada. His instructor in the 

 Algonquin (Nipissing) language was an Indian 

 named Ignace Pepamipattotch, who died in 1834. 

 In 1815 Thavenet returned to France, and in 

 1845 he died in Rome at an advanced age. 

 Among his manuscript papers, now preserved 

 in the Biblioteca Yittorio Emmanuele at Rome, 

 are letters relating to the Algonquin language 

 from the missionaries Durocher, Richard, and 

 Quiblier; and from P. S. DuPonceau, John 

 Pickering, and "W. von Humboldt. 



Thavenet was the author of the Latin and 

 French versions which accompany the anony- 

 mous Algonquin catechism printed at Pisa 

 under the care of Prof. Teza in 1872. The notes 

 to the catechism and the Algonquin-French 

 vocabulary at the end are by him also. "When 

 the catechism was printed the authorship of 

 these portions was uuknown to the editor. 

 The original manuscript (64 pp. oblong quarto) 

 is preserved among the papers of Cardinal 

 Mezzofanti in the library of the University at 

 Bologna. There is a transcript of it in the 

 Biblioteca Yittorio Emmanuele at Rome (no. 

 XXV), which gives the text only, without the 

 versions, and stops at page 49 of the Bologna 

 manuscript (page 40 of the printed edition), 

 closing with the words: "kaye auicininiwak ka 

 nicqiAtc." In this transcript there are varia- 

 tions in the text, changes in the orthography, 

 and some omissions, but it contains the Confi- 

 teor( "Ni wihdamaw^k kije-Manitomizikanit- 

 tawitotc . . . ") and the act of contrition 

 ("Kije-Manito, n'6se, ohdjitakit onicic . . ."), 

 which are lacking in themanuscript at Bologna. 

 Then there are other fragments of this same 

 catechism in the Biblioteca Yittorio Emma- 

 nuele: one (with the pressmarkxxiii A) which 

 contains as far as page 13 of the Bologna man- 

 uscript (to the end of page 17 of the printed 

 edition) ; and another (pressmark xxiii B) on 

 the communion, which follo-ws more or less the 

 Bologna text page 49 (printed edition, p. 40) 



